second是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 第二； 次等的， 二等的n. 秒v. 赞成， 附和v. (临时) 调任， 调派，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ay, I can mind yer face now, shepherd," said Henery Fray, criticising Gabriel with misty eyes as he entered upon his second tune.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two sets of rooms on the second floor were respectively occupied by an old man named Poiret and a man of forty or thereabouts, the wearer of a black wig and dyed whiskers, who gave out that he was a retired merchant, and was addressed as M. Vautrin.
-- If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious life had brought the color to the wan cheeks that were slightly hollowed already; if love had put light into the sad eyes, then Victorine might have ranked among the fairest; but she lacked the two things which create woman a second time--pretty dresses and love-letters.
-- At the beginning of Eugene de Rastignac's second twelvemonth, this figure suddenly started out into bold relief against the background of human forms and faces among which the law student was yet to live for another two years to come.
-- Unluckily, towards the end of the second year, M. Goriot's conduct gave some color to the idle talk about him.
-- Vauquer to give him a room on the second floor, and to make a corresponding reduction in her charges.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
-- Your affectionate brother, R. Walton FrankensteinLetter 2To Mrs. Saville, England Archangel, 28th March, 17 How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow!Yet a second step is taken towards my en-terprise.
-- On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Raiford Calvert was made firstlieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Abel Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a small farmer, waselected second lieutenant.
-- When Scarlett was a year old, and more healthy and vigorous than a girl baby had any right to be, in Mammy'sopinion, Ellen's second child, named Susan Elinor, but always called Suellen, was born, and in due time came Carreen,listed in the family Bible as Caroline Irene.
-- "Cousins shouldn't marry, even second cousins.
-- And when my family wanted me to marry a second cousin,I bucked like a colt.
-- The wide hall which ran from front to back of the house wasswarming with people, and as the O'Hara carriage drew up at the front steps, Scarlett saw girls in crinolines, bright asbutterflies, going up and coming down the stairs from the second floor, arms about each other's waists, stopping tolean over the delicate handrail of the banisters, laughing and calling to young men in the hall below them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second greatest surprise I have ever had in my life was seeing him on his back again, looking up at me out of a black eye.
-- The stranger did not recognize me, but I recognized him as the gentleman I had met on the stairs, on the occasion of my second visit to Miss Havisham.
-- I again warmly repeated that it was a bad side of human nature (in which sentiment, waiving its application, I have since seen reason to think I was right), and I walked down the little path away from Biddy, and Biddy went into the house, and I went out at the garden gate and took a dejected stroll until supper-time; again feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this, the second night of my bright fortunes, should be as lonely and unsatisfactory as the first.
-- There was a red-eyed little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in company with a second little Jew whom he sent upon an errand; and while the messenger was gone, I remarked this Jew, who was of a highly excitable temperament, performing a jig of anxiety under a lamp-post and accompanying himself, in a kind of frenzy, with the words, "O Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth!all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!"
-- He married his second wife privately, because he was proud, and in course of time she died.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone.
-- Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set out, and the same thing happened to him.
-- Now Sultan had no- 29body he could ask to be his second but the shepherd's old three-legged cat; so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck up her tail straight in the air.
-- And as the carter went on with the other two horses, she again crept under the tilt of the cart, and pecked out the bung of the second cask, so that all the wine ran out.
-- and perched on the head of the second horse, and pecked at him too.
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